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DHW

DHW is the initialism of domestic hot water.

Meaning of domestic hot water

Noun

domestic hot water (uncountable)

  1. Water used, in any type of building, for domestic purposes, principally drinking, food preparation, sanitation, personal hygiene, and heating (but not including swimming pool heating, or processes such as commercial food preparation or clothes washing).
    • Heating, ventilation, domestic hot water and lighting use significant amounts of energy.1996, Geraint John, Kit Campbell, Handbook of Sports and Recreational Building Design Volume 3: Ice Rinks and Swimming Pools
    Synonyms:
    DHW

Questions about DHW

What is DHW the initialism of?
DHW is the initialism of domestic hot water.

Words near DHW in the dictionary

  1. Dhuvaafaruhuraa
  2. Dhuwal
  3. DHV
  4. DHVA
  5. Dhvani
  6. DHW
  7. Dhwani
  8. dhyana
  9. dhyanas
  10. dhye
  11. Dhye Khola

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DHW (page history and authors); domestic hot water (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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